Coke or Pepsi?

[healingduck]

Coke.

Pepsi is good also. But if I was to go to the fridge and choose between the two, I would choose coke.

 

[NineOfClubs]

I probably no more than four fizzy drinks a year.

Usually I would choose Dr. Pepper, but if the choice were between just Coke and Pepsi, I'd have a Pepsi every time.

 

[belamyi]

Belamy, I noticed that Pepsi drinkers fell lower on the socio-economic scale than Coke drinkers. It was too strong a trend to ignore.

Also, the rarer the meat, the richer the client. The really rich often like their meat "charred rare".

Troglodytes what about their greens? or were they just too troglodyte to eat that?
However, better juicy than charred

 

[NineOfClubs]

In the 70's or so, Coke was considered Democrat and Pepsi was thought Republican. And they tended to donate to those parties.

But today Coke's home (the South) is Republican, so I'm guessing the old distinction no longer applies.

 

[The_Reaper]

I kind of alternate, but not between coke and pepsi, but rather different products of theirs.

Barq's Root Beer is the superior alternative to anything Pepsi has for root beer; but Dr. Pepper also holds a special place in my heart.

That said though, I'm currently on my noble experiment of giving up pop...I think I'm a month in, though I have slipped and had 7-Up on two occasions...

 

[belamyi]

It's personal taste - Coke has more of a flavorful bite to me. Pepsi is often blander and much more sugary. Neither one mixes well with lemon.

Also, to the person that stated that drinking pepsi reveals a lower social class, I have this to say. Anyone thinking that a carbonated drink that often costs the same as the other reveals a social position is obvious a member of society we can quite frankly do without; a padded room should be your new domain.

Someone who thinks that "social position" is just about money should stop posting and go back to livestock stalls.
A social class is something you are born to, not a privilege to which money and/or education grant you free access. Social class is a stagnant status, not a career or a flow. Do not mistake interstrata social intercourse with inner class fellowship.

 

[NineOfClubs]

Jim, it is the truth.

The ones that drank Pepsi tended to be lower class, just as the ones who order their meat "well done".

I swear it's the truth.

JB, that's a bit hard to swallow (no pun intended).

Coke absolutely ruled the South.

Are you saying southerners in those days were the upper class?

 

[belamyi]

I'm not rich [STRIKE]but I'm not broke either[/STRIKE] and I happen to love diet Pepsi and CHARRED RAW steaks.....so.......

There you have it

I know it's anathema for the American to consider themselves any less than the rest in whatever respect, but casual social discrimination is perfectly compatible with effective legal equality, and the stronger the equality by law ruling from high above, the stronger the need to discriminate in daily life below.

 

[castoono]

If you offer me Coke and give me Pepsi, I will know it at once. Strange thing, I like much the first and dislike the 2nd.
Many times I ordered Coke and the answer was "Pepsi?" then I'd rather have water or nothing at all.

 

[belamyi]

Still another: people who order beer at breakfast (ugh) are almost 100% Europeans. (In fact, I don't think I've ever seen an American do that.)

You mean British and German people?
Spaniards don't even ever actually have breakfast. Coffee+optional danish is the epitome of breakfast in Spain.

You know what's funny? MagnificentObsession got his panties in a wad about the cola observation, but said nothing about the meat temperature. No one else mentioned it, either.

I just skimmed the subject: one of the most dismaying experiences I can get from TV is to watch one of those Argentinian BBQs http://www.google.com/images?client...&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1281&bih=635 and the like... along with bleeding steaks so I'd rather not even talk about it

 

[ChickenGuy]

I must be terribly low-class, because as well as voting for Pepsi, I ALWAYS order my meat well-done.

But on the upside, I never have beer with breakfast (or any other time for that matter - I'm teetotal)

 

[sonny10305]

I stay away from the sugary stuff but when I want a cola my choice in diet Coke. I tried Pepsi and it just doesnt make me go Ahhhh after I swallow

 

[joshBTW]

Neither

But I rather drink Pepsi *throws up*

 

[unloadonme]

^Then you pick both. The fact is that you drink both. Your preference is interesting but the poll is more fundamental than that.
Seems a little out of character for yorkshire tho as I would expect most drink tea and/or beer

You'd be surprised.

Wow that's not true at all! How can Pepsi be lower class? What a complete load of rubbish. What a stereotype and I am offended!

What was that about stereotyping?

 

[belamyi]

Ah yes Pepsi versus Coke and the class system in america - very complex stuff indeed.

There is no damn class or caste system in America, there is only a pay system: payroll, tipping, gold-digging, bonus, megabonus, trickle-down, franchise whores, management fees, performance fees, bailout, scam...

 

[geloge]

not option for beer

 

[belamyi]

I still remember one day in class at the universty, when some teacher was trying to prove something about all people, or young people being cut from the same cloth by using CC as an example (Pepsi was not even being considered) and it turned out that it was a bad choice: not a single student drank it regularly, or ever at all.
I used to assume that CC or soft drinks were not something you would drink on a regular basis, only on some occasions, or at least not after high-school age...

However, it's true that the more usual term equivalent to "soda" in Spain is still not "refresco" or whatever else, but a "[Coca-]Cola"

 

[unloadonme]

I'll take a PIMM's then...

Now you're talking.

 

[seven2go]

So let's change the words.

Would "working-class" be better?

NO.......................You are suggesting a working stiff cannot savor a good pâté or any other gourmet delights.[/COLOR]

 

[belamyi]

NO.......................You are suggesting a working stiff cannot savor a good pâté or any other gourmet delights.[/COLOR]

So what? I am working-class and I won't feel any worse or better because of what others, idiots included, would attach to that... besides, most people, irrespective of class, education, ntionality, whatever, cannot savor most things in all their richness: then again, so what?
Being more sensitive is not being senseless with a louder voice.